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Recent softswitch announcements indicate that while tough times still lay ahead for the companies trying to sell these devices, better times are coming.

CopperCom Inc., a maker of softswitches and integrated access devices (IAD) supporting voice over DSL, says it has adopted a new ATM standard that will make it easier for DSL service providers to wheel out packaged voice and data services.

CopperCom Inc. says it has adopted a new ATM standard that will make it easier for DSL service providers to wheel out packaged voice and data services.

CopperCom, which bought up voice switch vendor DTI earlier this year, is wheeling out its first melding of CopperCom's media gateway with DTI's softswitch.

Voice-over-DSL patent battle looming?

THE FUTURE OF PHONE? Voice-over-DSL offers cost savings--and considerable risk By Daniel Sweeney

A vast interoperability demonstration is leading the advances in DSL technology on display at the SuperComm 2000 show in Atlanta this week.

It's easy to see why James Knudson likes voice over DSL. His Covina, California, law firm buys voice-over-DSL service from mPower Communications that supports four phones and Internet access on a 768K-bps DSL connection for about US$300 per month.

- With the blurring of the line between enterprise and public networks, the SuperComm 2000 show next week will be a must-watch for corporations. This year, the traditionally carrier-focused show will go out of its way to highlight products and services for corporate networks.

If demonstrations from last week's DSLCon show are carried over into the real world, corporate customers will be able to turn common phone lines into high-speed voice-data circuits with ease by year-end.

State telecom regulators have decided they don't like a lobbying effort under way to allow Bell companies to carry data and Internet traffic across local boundaries before they get general long-distance approval. The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, which represents telecom and energy regulators in the 50 states, passed a resolution opposing congressional bills to free up Bells to create long-haul data backbones even before they submit state-by-state, long-distance applications to the government. Some of the Bells have funded a lobbying group headed by former White House Press Secretary Mike McCurry to push for the idea, arguing they could provide a needed boost in Internet backbone capacity. Critics say the Bells could do a lot more for the Internet by concentrating on speeding up the local loop.